‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town

Telford, Luke

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“…He went on to lament that he spent most of his time handling human resources, from low-skill to high-skill workers, although as CEO he felt that he should be primarily focusing on market expansion. This finding echoes Telford (2022), who discusses how working people in a decaying and deindustrialising area of the UK have lost their raison d'être due to neoliberalism and marketisation that have destroyed the communal fabric and thus inhibit the area's revival, and Rajković (2018), who discusses the LESSONS FROM EXPORTING SMES IN THE WESTERN BALKANS loss of collective meaning for Serbian workers as their city deindustrialised following a failed privatisation effort.…”

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How regional integration agreements can foster inclusive growth: lessons from exporting SMEs in the Western Balkans

Avlijaš

2022

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Empirical evidence on regional integration indicates that CEFTA?s Common Regional Market (CRM) could have spatially unequalising effects across the Western Balkans. Such an outcome would be in conflict with CEFTA?s goal of inclusive regional economic integration. This article offers a roadmap to avoid that pitfall. Literature on the changing global economy in the digital era and ICT-led growth and literature on the political economy of trust and cooperation between smaller economic agents are brought into a conversation with bottom-up empirical insights from small and medium enterprises (SME) from the region. Empirical data are collected from in-depth interviews with 58 export-oriented SMEs in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia. I find that smaller firms are immensely interdependent with the environments within which they operate and that their competitiveness also stems from their ability to successfully leverage on these communal resources and local public goods. Finding ways to preserve and enhance this collective infrastructure is often more of a priority for them than market expansion and technological progress. The paper concludes by arguing that designing (supranational) institutions which can facilitate local and translocal cooperation among competitive exporting SMEs would mobilise greater democratic support for the CRM project.

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Section: Lessons From Exporting Smes In the Western Balkansmentioning

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How regional integration agreements can foster inclusive growth: lessons from exporting SMEs in the Western Balkans

Avlijaš

2022

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“…The advance of manufacturing work including mining, steel, engineering, and particularly ceramics as the area's raison d'être continued into the twentieth century, with the region acquiring the nicknames Ceramicopolis and The Potteries (Jayne, 2004). Whilst the immediate decades after the culmination of the 1929 Great Depression and two World Wars are generally thought of as the trente glorieuses due to rising living standards, mass unionisation and Government control of the commanding heights of the economy (Streeck, 2016;Jessop, 2018;Telford, 2022b), "Stoke's dependence upon long-established industries was to have catastrophic consequences" (MacLeod and Jones, 2018, p. 122) and is the point of departure for its development as the "heartland of the left behind" (Morris, 2017).…”

Section: A Place Called Stoke-on-trent: Crises In the Makingmentioning

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Challenges to Levelling Up: Post-COVID precarity in “left behind” Stoke-on-Trent

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Jones²,

Telford³

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The COVID-19 pandemic both revealed and intensified the United Kingdom's (UK) regional inequalities. The UK is widely recognised as one of the most regionally unbalanced nations in the developed world, with many “left behind” places across the North and Midlands like Stoke-on-Trent falling way behind parts of London and the Southeast of England in terms of living standards in the neoliberal era. Since 2019 the UK Government have promised to “Level Up” the UK, culminating in the publication of the Levelling Up White Paper in 2022. This pinpointed the need to raise living standards, opportunity, and prosperity across the UK, with Stoke identified as a priority area. Primarily utilising qualitative case study data (N = 15) provided by Citizens Advice Staffordshire North and Stoke-on-Trent (CASNS), this article explicates how there are myriad challenges to the Levelling Up strategy in Stoke. Suffering from a historical legacy of the loss of its ceramics and manufacturing industries, the paper outlines how the city-region contains a structural cocktail of disadvantage including low paid jobs, welfare erosion, indebtedness, destitution, and food insecurity. The article closes by discussing the implications of these structural problems for the Government's Levelling Up agenda, suggesting that only a transformative shift in both allocated resources and neoliberal spatial development will regional imbalances be adequately addressed in places like Stoke-on-Trent.

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“…Sanayisizleşme ve bunun mekânsal müdahale formu olarak değerlendirilebilecek fabrika kapatma günümüz kentleri için birbiriyle ilintili iki fenomendir. Sanayisizleşme neoliberal yeniden yapılanmacı ekonomi modelinin yansımalarını sunabilirken (Telford, 2022), fabrika kapatmalar ise özellikle büyük kentlerdeki dönüşüm sürecinin mekânsal izlerinin çoğu zaman somut karşılıklarını sunmaktadır. Özellikle yerelin gelişmesi ve ekonomik sürdürülebilirliğin devamı için büyük fabrikalar klasik kalkınma kuramı açısından uzunca zamanlar önemini korumuştur.…”

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A Qualitative Study on the Transformation of Urban Industrial Areas: The Behind of Izmır Alsancak Port

Ayik

ÖGEL

2022

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Sanayisizleşme ve fabrika kapatmalar günümüz kentleri için temel bir dönüşüm trendine aracılık eden iki güncel fenomendir. Günümüzde bu iki fenomen üzerine yapılan çalışmalar ağırlıkla makro göstergelerde sanayisizleşme süreçlerini analiz etme ve fabrika kapatma sonrası iş durumlarını, iş yörüngelerini anlamaya odaklanmaktadır. Fakat ilgili literatür, sürecin sonrasındaki mekândaki fonksiyonel değişimi ortaya çıkarma ve yerelin bu değişimden nasıl etkilendiğini açıklamak açısından ise zayıf kalmaktadır. Çalışma bu boşluğu doldurmak amacıyla İzmir’in eski sanayi bölgelerinden olan Liman Ardı’ya odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel amacı fonksiyonel değişime karşılık gelen fabrika kapatma sonrasında fabrika ile bağı kesilmiş işçilerin deneyimlerini ele almak ve değişimi ana aktörlerin gözünden aktarmaktır. Bunu gerçekleştirmek için Tekel Sigara Fabrikası, Sümerbank Basma Fabrikası ve Halkapınar Cer Atölyesi’nde çalışmış 11 eski fabrika işçisinin kapanma sonrasındaki deneyimlerini açığa çıkarabilmek amacıyla yarı yapılandırılmış mülakatlar gerçekleştirilmiştir. Elde edilen görüşmeler transkripsiyon edildikten sonra, MAXQDA 2020 programı vasıtasıyla kodlanmıştır. Görüşmelerden sanayileşme ve sanayisizleşme süreçleri ve İzmir’in gelişim süreci olmak üzere iki tema ortaya çıkmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında Liman Ardı Bölgesi’nde fabrika kapanması sonrasında yerelin dinamiklerini etkileyecek işsizlik, istihdam değişimi gibi süreçlerin ortaya çıktığı tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca çalışma alanında fonksiyonel değişimde baskın bir kullanımın ortaya çıkmadığı, atıl halde duran fabrikaların yanı sıra, eğitim fonksiyonu üstlenmiş alanlar da güncel kullanımda karşımıza çıkmaktadır.

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‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town

Cited by 18 publications

References 55 publications

How regional integration agreements can foster inclusive growth: lessons from exporting SMEs in the Western Balkans

How regional integration agreements can foster inclusive growth: lessons from exporting SMEs in the Western Balkans

Challenges to Levelling Up: Post-COVID precarity in “left behind” Stoke-on-Trent

A Qualitative Study on the Transformation of Urban Industrial Areas: The Behind of Izmır Alsancak Port

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